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[CITE: 8USC1230]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
 Part IV--Inspection, Apprehension, Examination, Exclusion, and Removal
 
Sec. 1230. Records of admission

    (a) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed, as a record of 
admission of each immigrant, the immigrant visa required by section 
1201(e) of this title to be surrendered at the port of entry by the 
arriving alien to an immigration officer.
    (b) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed such record of the 
admission into the United States of each immigrant admitted under 
section 1181(b) of this title and of each nonimmigrant as the Attorney 
General deems necessary for the enforcement of the immigration laws.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 4, Sec. 240C, formerly Sec. 240, 
66 Stat. 204; renumbered Sec. 240C and amended Pub. L. 104-208, div. C, 
title III, Secs. 304(a)(2), 308(f)(1)(K), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3009-587, 3009-621.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-208, Sec. 308(f)(1)(K), substituted 
``admission'' for ``entry''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-208 effective, with certain transitional 
provisions, on the first day of the first month beginning more than 180 
days after Sept. 30, 1996, see section 309 of Pub. L. 104-208, set out 
as a note under section 1101 of this title.

  Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of 
                                Functions

    For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of 
functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under 
section 1551 of this title.